ALL 2004 IOC-RACES FOR SCALE CARS

1st EUROCUP SCALE RACING-GOTHA-ZLIN-MINDEN-PARDUBICE

JIRI MICEK JR WINS G12 & ES24

AT LEAST AN INTELLIGENT INITIATIVE IN SCALE RACING

We all know what scale racing is under the conservative nomenclatura of Charlie Gooding and his ISRA co-dictators: hardly more than a sick making joke. Although G12 racing is the most popular class in scale racing, hyper conservative Gooding found never time to introduce it at the ISRA world and to drop such classes as 132F1 and ES32, being hardly more than survivals of the early 1980s. Gooding and his co-dictators have still not understood that England is no longer a world leader in international politics, that this is still no longer the case since... 1890! Nevertheless Gooding believes that only the British should dictate the rest of the world what scale racing should be. The result of this nomenclatura was that number of scale racers gradually decreased.
By organising between March 2004 and November 2004 the EuroCup over 4 rounds, restricted to the popular G12 and ES24, and with separate rankings for amateurs and experts, German and Czech scale racers proved to belong to the actual postmodern society, while Gooding & Co still belong to the Victorian Era. At least European scale racers could enter an international series responding on what is living in the postmodern world. Old fashion fossils as 132F1 and ES32 were banned from the EuroCup. The dubious 124PR Team Race - as always organised by Gooding's ISRA - was banned as well. At the EuroCup scale racers could breath in all freedom a new postmodern air, freed from the Victorian ISRA yoke! 
The 2004 EuroCup went over four races in Gotha (D), Zlin (CZ), Minden (D) and Pardubice (CZ). Only the 3 best results per race were considered. A better formula should perhaps have been to add one round in England and another in Finland or Sweden, instead of two rounds in Czechia and two rounds in Germany.

Jiri Micek jr (mid) won the 2004 EuroCup ahead of dad Jiri Micek sr (left). Here we see father and son together with Kamil Klapka at the 2002 ESROC G27 Nats in Uden. There too Jiri Micek jr was the winner.

Attendance at the several rounds was still unequal, but except for Josef Korec, Frantisek Poledna, Thomas Rosenberg and Josef Miskolci all good scale racers from Central Europe entered at least one round, even IOC #2 Vladimir Horky (the best scale racer in the world) and 2004 world champion Petr Krcil. There were racers from Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Slovakia, Germany and Czechia. With Paolo Trigilio, Jaroslav Recek, Michal Radkovic, we found at some rounds toppers at the start. But the main surprise is that Germany counts again a sufficient number of scale racers, among them Heiko Thinschmidt, Reiner Borzutski, Roland Brehmer, Michael Krause and U.E. Pietsch as best ones. Since years we saw no Germans in the Victorian ISRA circus of SuperQueen Charlotte Gooding the First. I feel Germans have right not to enter the ISRA comedy swindled for a world championship. I consider ISRA as pure poison in slot-racing and I can only hope that the well attended EuroCup will open in the future its doors for the excellent racers of Scandinavia and England, so that the racers themselves can see with their proper eyes the distinction between Jurassic ISRA racing (where 8 days are spilled for 4 races!) and postmodern EuroCup racing. Someone has to ban ES32 and 132F1 from the interna-tional calendar, the first as totally overruled by ES24, the second as having never been a universal class.
Winner of the first EuroCup was Czechia's Jiri Micek jr, ahead of dad Jiri Micek sr (who at Chicago 1988 held me off the main final at the worlds!) and the surprisingly strong Heiko Thinschmidt, and this both in G12 and ES24. Of the twice four rounds Jiri Micek jr won three rounds, Antónin Vojtik won two rounds (the lonely two he entered, proving his terrible progress); Rainer Borzutski (what a surprise!!!) Paolo Trigilio and Michal Radkovic won each one round. The EuroCup has been immediately accepted as an IOC-event with 20-15-12-9-6-3-2-1 points for the top-8, both in G12 and ES24.
In Minden was won by Michal Radkovic (mid) ahead of Jaroslav Recek (right) and Jiri Micek sr (left).

Experts Eurosport G12
Place Name First Name Nat. Club Gotha Zlin Minden Pardubice Points
1 Míček Jiří jun. CZ Zlin 51 50 47 30(0) 148
2 Míček Jiří sen. CZ Zlin 37 26(0) 43 31 111
3 Thinschmidt Heiko D Gotha 33(0) 37 39 35 111
4 Kimmel Erik CZ Zlin 47 - 27 28 102
5 Brehmer Roland D Gotha 43 31 14(0) 26 100
6 Klapka Kamil CZ Zlin 29 41 30 29(0) 100
7 Krause Michael D Chemnitz 39 23 37 - 99
8 Mechl Viktor CZ Zlin 45 20(0) 29 24 98
9 Borsutzki Rainer D Gotha 41 29 17(0) 27 97
10 Pietsch U.E. D Chemnitz 31 33 31 - 95
11 Radkovič Michal CZ Brno - 48 45 - 93
12 Thinschmidt Rene D Gotha 35 28 - 23 86
13 Rölli Kurt CH Baar 30 30 25 - 85
14 Karlík Jiří CZ Praha - 39 - 45 84
15 Flaisig Pavel CZ Praha - 43 - 41 84
16 Okali Vlado SVK Bratislava - - 35 43 78
17 Lindner Uwe D Gotha 28 - 18 25 71
18 Limmer Holger D Plauen 27 27 - - 54
19 Trigilio Paolo I

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 - - 51 - 51
20 Vojtík Antonín CZ Praha - - - 50 50
21 Bertocci Sergio I - - - 13 37 50
22 Horký Vladimír CZ - - - - 48 48
23 Krčil Petr CZ Pardubice - 45 - - 45
24 Kober Ingo D Plauen 26 - 19 - 45
25 Valle Andrea I

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 - - 41 - 41
26 Hojer Miloš CZ Praha - - - 39 39
27 Kopriwa Fritz CH Baar - 21 16 - 37
28 Hochstein Siegfried D Berlin - - 15 22 37
29 Škoda Jan CZ Ostrov n. Ohri - 35 - - 35
30-31 Reček Jaroslav CZ

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 - - 33 - 33
30-31 Hojer Martin CZ Praha - - - 33 33
32 Drosba Michael D Minden - - 28 - 28
33 Pensel Ingo D Bad Salzuflen - - 26 - 26
34-35 Paulus Herbert D Minden 25 - - - 25
35-35 Vadlejch Miroslav CZ Strakonice - 25 - - 25
36-38 Schmeer Dietmar D Türkenfeld - 24 - - 24
36-38 Nicoli Davide I

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 - - 24 - 24
36-38 Köhler Roland D Scheinfeld 24 - - - 24
39 Brown-Searle Andy GB

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 - - 23 - 23
40 Kamiet Rudi D Essen - - 22 - 22
41 Bradburn David GB - - - 21 - 21
42 Lees David GB - - - 20 - 20
43 Parker Ralph GB - - - 12 - 12

Experts Eurosport 1/24 (ES24)
Rank Name First Name Nat. Club Gotha Zlin Minden Pardubice Points
1 Micek Jiri jun. CZ Zlin 46 50 43 37(0) 139
2 Micek Jiri sen. CZ Zlin 43 47 45 39(0) 135
3 Thinschmidt Heiko D Gotha 41 39 24(0) 35 115
4 Borsutzki Rainer D Gotha 50 31 15(0) 33 114
5 Kimmel Erik CZ Zlin 39   30 41 110
6 Klapka Kamil CZ Zlin 37 33 37 26(0) 107
7 Mechl Viktor CZ Zlin 33 41 26(0) 28 102
8 Pietsch U.E. D Chemnitz 47 23 29 99
9 Radkovic Michal CZ Brno - 45 51 - 96
10 Brehmer Roland D Gotha 35 29 19(0) 30 94
11 Okali Vlado SVK Bratislava - - 41 45 86
12 Rölli Kurt CH Baar 31 43 12 - 86
13 Thinschmidt Rene D Gotha 28 27 14(0) 27 82
14 Kopriwa Fritz CH Baar - 26 17 25 68
15 Krause Michael D Chemnitz - 24 39 - 63
16 Bertocci Sergio I - - 31 29 60
17 Limmer Holger D Plauen 30 28 - - 58
18 Vojtík Antonín CZ Praha - - - 50 50
19-20 Recek Jaroslav CZ - - 47 - 47
19-20 Hojer Miloš CZ Praha - - - 47 47
21 Kober Ingo D Plauen 27 - 18 - 45
22 Hochstein Siegfried D Berlin - - 21 24 45
23 Flaisig Pavel CZ Praha - - - 44 44
24 Skoda Jan CZ Ostrov n. Ohri - 37 - - 37
25-26 Valle Andrea I - - 35 - 35
25-26 Schmeer Dietmar D Türkenfeld - 35 - - 35
27 Trigilio Paolo I - - 33 - 33
28 Hojer Martin CZ Praha - - - 31 31
29 Krcil Petr CZ Pardubice - 31 -